Salt Lake Tribune | 1914-03-07 | Page 10 | Star Lightweights on Monday's Card

STAR LIGHTWEIGHTS 1 MOH'S CARD Harry Shaffer and Charley Midkiff Matched; Battle Royal a Feature. Monday nlght'6 programme of tho Manhattan Man-hattan oath promises tho fanH a card full of action from the curtain raiser to tho main event of the evening, which will bring togothcr Charles Midkiff and Hnrrv Shuffer. This bout, of course, will be the feature ovnit of tlio night. Thcso two !o.v arc tlu- tr4im of the lightweight division now participating In the short-distance short-distance boutsj and should furnish a very Interesting cotitobt fmi gong to gon?. i Tho big Ixittle royal, which will bring together rtvu husky negroes from all sections sec-tions of the town, also promises to he one of tho best fun-makers the club has ever put on. In this bout tlvo colored men will be sent In the ring with the blx ten-ounce gloves on, and as none of them will know who the others are going to be until they step Into the ring, there Is sure to be something doing. The third feature of the evening's entertainment en-tertainment Is tha meeting of four boys from tliu nHvy organized Woat Side Athletic Ath-letic club with a llko number of tho Manhattan Man-hattan club boys. BUI Haddock of tho West Side club will be matched with Tom Crawford of the Manhattan. Aa the West Side boy Is said to be u young Gilbert Gallant In action, ac-tion, the fans arc due to see somt action, ac-tion, aa Crawford Is ono of the best crowd plcascns of tha "Manhattan club and Is always milling from the tlmo the first gong rings until the bout Is over, Ben Haddock, n featherweight, will bo pllttd against Dan Stewart, the Ogden boy who has been showing so much Improvement Im-provement of late. Mlckev Burns, a 125-poundr.r of tho tVest Side club, will meet "Kid" Eph of thu manbuttan club, and Lester Grlffths, who won the amateur bantamweight title in this cltv two years ago. will bo sent against G cor no Hendricks of tho Manhattan Manhat-tan club. While Griffiths has never boxed before the Manhattan club. Hendricks will be remembered as the boy who pnt up one of the best bantamweight bout the club cvr had when he met "KJd" Sandy some time ago. These boya should furnish fur-nish a real- classy bout. The lads of tho West Side club, have been preparing for this contest for some timer they have had their boys training for the last two weeks and arc flgurlru? on showing the Manhattan boya a few things about the boxing- game.